From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R Subject: [Peoples War] Palestine: Jeruslam Bomb Shakes Truce - BBC
Monday, 1 October, 2001, 20:56 GMT 21:56 UK RealPlayer Video link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1570000/video/_1572946_blast0930_wood_vi.ram Jerusalem bomb shakes truce ==================== http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1572000/1572761.st m Israeli investigators examine the wreckage A car bomb has exploded in the Talpiot area of southern Jerusalem - a popular shopping district. "We don't see a ceasefire, only the continuation of terror" Avi Pazner, aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon The explosion set several cars ablaze and threw some vehicles into the air, but no injuries were reported. The device was packed with bullets designed to produce shrapnel, the police said. Correspondents say the blast has raised further doubts about the nature of a ceasefire agreed last month by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. In a separate development, Mr Peres has denied saying that he believed leaders of Israel's army wanted to kill Mr Arafat. Mr Peres said he had been misquoted in an article in an Israeli newspaper. 'No ceasefire' It is the first such blast since since the ceasefire was agreed on 18 September. Militant Palestinians have said they will not observe the ceasefire and violence continued at the weekend, with at least 12 Palestinians killed by Israeli troops. Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV reported that the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, Al-Quds Squads, admitted it was behind the explosion. Israeli officials said the car bomb blast marked a definite escalation of violence. "It is obvious that the Palestinian Authority is not doing enough, or anything to stop the violence," Avi Pazner, a close aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, told the French news agency AFP. "We don't see a ceasefire, only the continuation of terror." The blast went off, on the first day of a two-day Jewish holiday, on the busy Bethlehem Road, which links Jerusalem and the West Bank town of Bethlehem to the south. "I heard a powerful blast and saw a cloud of black smoke go into the air," a witness told Israel Radio. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
